Episode 52 : Nurses Hold the Key to Next-Level Healthcare Innovation with Kristy Fogle
Kelly Landsman
Nurse Engineer & Biomedical Engineer
Episode #52: Nurses Hold the Key to Next-Level Healthcare Innovation with Kelly Landsman
Bridging the gap between nursing and engineering is vital to creating impactful healthcare innovations.
In this episode, Kelly Landsman, founder of Landsman Engineering, discusses her unique journey combining nursing and engineering, underscoring the necessity of nurse-engineer collaboration. Kelly explores how dual-trained professionals can improve patient outcomes, clinician experiences, and healthcare innovations through human-centered design and simulation. She highlights successes and ongoing initiatives across academia and industry, emphasizing the importance of trust, relationships, and humanity in healthcare technology, particularly with the advent of AI. Kelly advocates for nurses being deeply involved from the outset of technology development, underscoring their crucial insights into clinical workflows, patient care, and real-world challenges. She also addresses how nurses can leverage AI to reduce documentation burdens, elevate patient relationships, and enhance their professional practice. Finally, Kelly concludes, urging nurses and healthcare leaders to approach technological advancements with curiosity, openness, and bravery to transform healthcare genuinely.
Tune in and learn how nurses and engineers together can revolutionize healthcare delivery!
About Kelly Landsman:
Kelly Landsman is a pioneering nurse engineer who bridges biomedical engineering and nursing. With over 20 years in patient care technology R&D, she integrates clinical insights into medical device design. Kelly earned degrees in Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an accelerated Master’s in Nursing from the University of Minnesota. She spent over two years at the bedside in adult cardiology and perioperative nursing.
As founder of Landsman Engineering, LLC, Kelly holds six patents and has directly contributed to developing and launching multiple medical devices. She passionately advocates nurse-engineer collaboration through NurseEngineer.com, a central hub promoting partnerships among nurses and engineers. Kelly actively contributes to the American Nursing Association Innovation Advisory Committee and co-authors influential publications on nurse-engineer collaborations. Her recent initiatives focus on clinical simulation to prepare the healthcare workforce and empower caregivers.
Things You’ll Learn:
- Bridging nursing and engineering provides unique insights, making healthcare technology truly patient- and clinician-centered. Engaging nurses early in technology design ensures real-world usability and effectiveness.
- Trust, relationships, and humanity are critical when integrating AI into healthcare. Nurses, being trusted professionals, play a pivotal role in ensuring AI enhances rather than detracts from patient care.
- Nurses must have a voice in technological innovation, advocating for solutions that address practical workflow challenges. Genuine innovation happens when nurses actively collaborate from discovery through deployment.
- Clinical simulation provides a safe, iterative environment where nurses and engineers can co-create effective healthcare solutions. Simulation helps identify practical limitations early, save resources, and ensure realistic solutions are achieved.
- Encouraging curiosity, openness, and bravery among nurses can significantly enhance their role in healthcare innovation. Embracing uncertainty and cross-disciplinary collaboration will drive meaningful improvements in healthcare delivery.
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"here's a lot of technological trauma in healthcare between barcodes and electronic health records and devices that have taken nurses further and further away from their patients. You know, there's a lot to be processed there as well. And I think all of it is valid. So, how do we come to that room with an open, curious mind and think about what we could make that really delivers the kind of care we want to deliver?"